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Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, Charles H
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Hurst
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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, and at several places was obliged to halt several daysfrom sheer exhaustion. The porters, moreover, took advantageof this to revolt, and were only induced to proceed by a liberaldistribution of blackmail. On the 20th of October, aftercrossing a waste, uninhabited track, they entered Usui, thenext district to the north; and after being levied upon bysundry chiefs on the way, were conducted to the palace ofKing Suwarora, in tLe Uthungu valley. Suwarora had pro-fessed a great desire to see white men, and he had even sentmessengers to Uzinza to invite them to visit him; but heproved to be a superstitious savage, whose fear of witchcraftwould not permit him to look upon them, and whose curiosityresolved itself into the most extortionate blackmail. Whilein Usui Speke received a visit from a native of Uganda,the kingdom in whose territory, according to the reports oftravellers, the Nile issued from the Nyanza, and sent a mes-senger by him to Mtesa, the king of Uganda, announcing hiscoming.
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BPEKE AND GRANT. 273 As soon as they had settled with Suwarora about the tribute—it took ten days to find him sober enough to attend to business—the travellers pushed forward, and after crossing a narrowstrip of uninhabited territory, entered the famous and unknownkingdom of Karagwe. Their treatment in this land was verydifferent from that which they had experienced in Uzinza andUsui. As soon as they had entered it an officer met them,and informed them that King Rumanika had ordered him tobring them on at once to his palace, that the village officershad been instructed to supply them with food at the kings ex-pense, and that no taxes are gathered from strangers in thekingdom of Karagwe. Nor was this the mere exaggeratedboasting to which they had been accustomed. The fartherwe went in this country, says Speke, the better we liked it,as the people were all kept in good order; and the villagechiefs were so civil, that we could do as we liked. On the25th of November, 1861, after some

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